Quality Management and Accreditation/Certification of Genetic Testing (Unit 1)
Quality Management System
- Accreditation
- External Quality Assessment
- Diagnostic Validation
- Reference Materials
- Internal audit
- IT support
Education & Training
Databases & Resources
- Quality Assurance Database
- Reference materials resources
- EQA Scheme Directory
General Information
Our aim is to measurably improve the quality of the management and provision of genetic services for the benefit of the patient and that lab accreditation is considered the norm.
Find a genetic test/lab
Find information on a genetic diseases, genetic tests, quality assurance (QAu) for laboratories across Europe.
Events
More...Apr 2005 - Workshop on accreditation
Leiden (NL) More...Apr 2005 - OECD Steering Group
Paris (FR) More...Apr 2005 - Initial Best Practice Meeting: ERNDIM SAB and ERNDIM Executive Committee Meeting
Amsterdam (NL) More...May 2005 - International Meeting for Clinical and Laboratory Genomic Standards
Paris (FR) More...News
More...CEQA Registration is now open until the end of May
CEQA has opened its registration forms. In addition to the established EQAs (Amniotic Fluid, Blood, Haemato-Oncology, PGD Blastomere and Microarray Pilot) CEQA has added a CVS Pilot scheme and a PGD Polar Body Pilot EQA. You can register on the CEQA website (upd.18 Mar 2010)
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How to manage the human side of change?
How do you motivate the lab to implement a new quality system? How do you manage the human side of this process of change? (upd.01 Mar 2010) More...
Workshops on quality management and accreditation for 2010 are open for registration
Five new workshops are scheduled for 2010. The different topics include internal audit, validation, the human side of change and accreditation in French and English. (upd.07 Jan 2010) More...
UK Genetic Variant Database Launches Enquiry Service
NGRL Manchester has launched a global online enquiry service for the UK Diagnostic Mutation Database. (upd.27 Nov 2009)
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Validation report on MLPA ready.
The EuroGentest validation report on Multiplex Ligation-dependent Probe Amplification can now be downloaded here. It is an inter-laboratory collaborative validation study by Tom Janssens, Florence Le Calvez and Gert Matthijs (upd.13 Jul 2009) More...
Proposal regarding the Health Institution exemption of the IVD Directive
EuroGentest proposes only Accredited Labs Should Be Allowed to Use Laboratory-Developed Assays. The detailed proposal is open for comments and can be viewed here. (upd.12 May 2009) More...
There are a number of changes taking place in the ERNDIM EQA schemes and the website. We also want to bring you up to date with the progress towards accreditation for ERNDIM. This is going to be an increasingly important issue since organisations responsible for laboratory accreditation encourage, and may eventually insist, that EQA is only provided by accredited organisations.EuroGentest is organising its first Symposium on Quality & Laboratory Management
Topics such as laboratory quality assurance and accreditation, which are very important in medical laboratories, are not commonly addressed in (inter)national scientific meetings. This symposium aims to respond to this shortcoming and bring together people working in diagnostic laboratories. (upd.26 Jan 2009)
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New list of European National Contacts for Cytogenetics
CEQA provided us with a list of new national contacts for cytogenetics in Europe (upd.08 Jan 2009)
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Another successful Czech accreditation: Professor Milan Macek receives certificate
On Friday December 19 the ISO 15189 accreditation certificate was officially handed over to use by the director of the Czech Institute for Accreditation (www.cai.cz). (upd.05 Jan 2009)
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Last changed: 2011-06-22
